Spiral of Chronos/Patch Notes

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Official Patch Notes

MAINTENANCE TIME

December 12th 2023, 02:00 - 09:00 am (UTC)

MAINTENANCE COMPENSATION

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I. NEW MEMBER / WEAPON / CUB / COATING

1. New Character

Lee: Hyperreal

Info: S-Rank, Fire, Attacker

  • 100% rate up in [Themed Event Construct] and [Fate Themed Construct] research during 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) - 2024/1/10, 07:59 (UTC)

2. New 6★ Weapon

Key of Tempus Gate - Stokes

Info: 6★, Composite Armaments, Lee: Hyperreal Exclusive

  • Weapon Skill:
    • ATK increases by 10%. Casting Realm Travel will trigger Matrix if it is not on cooldown. The first Hypermatrix Strike launched upon entering battle will generate 1 extra Sight Point.
  • 80% rate up in [Target Weapon] research since 2023/12/12 (after maintenance).

3. New S-Rank CUB

Punchy

Tag: Damage

  • CUB features:
    • Punchy is an offensive CUB capable of dealing massive DMG to enemies within a huge or small area depending on your needs. When paired with Lee: Hyperreal, Punchy will significantly increase Hyperreal's Signature Move and Core Passive DMG, and provide support attacks when Hyperreal enters and performs Basic Attacks in Core Passive status.
  • 100% rate up in [CUB Weapon] research during 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) - 2024/1/10, 07:59 (UTC).

4. New & Rerun Character Coatings

1) Dance of Ripplets (Lucia: Plume Exclusive)

Duration: 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) - 2024/1/3, 07:59 (UTC)
  • Available in Dance of Ripplets special research. Please refer below for more detailed event information.
  • The coating Dance of Ripplets will NOT enter the regular Coating Shop in the future.

2) Scarlet Redeemer (Lee: Hyperreal Exclusive)

Duration: 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) - 2024/1/17, 07:59 (UTC)
  • Price: 68 RC (30% off)
  • The coating Scarlet Redeemer will enter the regular Coating Shop (Coating: Blueprint/Rainbow Card) in the future.

3) Radiant Respite (Chrome: Glory Exclusive)

Duration: 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) - 2024/1/17, 07:59 (UTC)
  • Price: 168 RC (30% off)
  • The coating Radiant Respite will NOT enter the regular Coating Shop in the future.

4) Jolly Santanami (Nanami: Pulse Exclusive)

Duration: 2023/12/24, 08:00 – 2024/1/17, 07:59 (UTC)
  • Price: 126 RC
  • The coating Jolly Santanami will NOT enter the regular Coating Shop in the future.

5. New & Rerun Weapon Coatings

1) Bonescale Blade (Katana coating)

Duration: 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) - 2024/1/3, 07:59 (UTC)
  • Participate in the Dance of Ripplets special research event to obtain the Bonescale Blade weapon coating as a 1st Layer reward. Please refer below for more detailed event information.
  • The weapon coating Bonescale Blade will NOT enter the regular Coating Shop in the future.

2) Leisure Time (Gunblade coating)

Duration: 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) - 2024/1/17, 07:59 (UTC)
  • Price: 28 RC (30% off)
  • The weapon coating Leisure Time will NOT enter the regular Coating Shop in the future.

3) Hymn of Stars (Saw coating)

Duration: 2023/12/24, 08:00 – 2024/1/17, 07:59 (UTC)
  • Price: 28 RC (30% off)
  • The weapon coating Hymn of Stars will NOT enter the regular Coating Shop in the future.

4) Elpis, Release! (Bow coating)

Duration: 2023/12/12, 07:00 - 2024/1/18, 01:59 (UTC)
  • Purchase [Top-secret Intel] in [Tactical Assessment Manual] to unlock coating access. Achieve rating level 40 to claim the coating.
  • The weapon coating Elpis, Release! will NOT enter the regular Coating Shop in the future.

6. Dance of Ripplets Coating Special Research Rerun

Duration: 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) - 2024/1/3, 07:59 (UTC)
  • During the event, you may access the event page via [Main Lobby] - [Dance of Ripplets] event entrance. In the event, you may redeem event token [Mermaid's Gift] with Black Cards or Rainbow Cards, and consume Mermaid's Gift to draw for various rewards. The SFX coating Dance of Ripplets for Lucia: Plume is guaranteed within 10 pulls.
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Event Rules
1. Each research consumes the event token [Mermaid's Gift]. The number of Mermaid's Gifts required increases as you progress from the first to the tenth research, which is listed as follows:
- 50 / 100 / 250 / 400 / 600 / 800 / 1200 / 1700 / 2200 / 2700
2. You may redeem the event token Mermaid's Gift with Black Cards by a ratio of 1:1, or with Rainbow Cards for a higher cost performance. The numbers of Rainbow Cards required to redeem Mermaid's Gift needed for the first to tenth research are listed as follows:
- 1 / 3 / 8 / 13 / 19 / 26 / 39 / 56 / 73 / 90
3. All rewards are limited, you will not obtain rewards repeatedly.
4. Drop rates of the rewards for each research attempt are different. Please refer to in-game event notes for detailed drop rates. The coating Dance of Ripplets may drop starting from the fifth research.
5. Extra reward Player Portrait [Dance of Ripplets] will be granted upon finishing the eighth research. The Core Layer Reward is guaranteed within 10 researches.
6. Dance of Ripplets is an independent research pool. The number of draws made will NOT be inherited to another rerun research pool in the future. Please plan your resource consumption accordingly.
  • For more detailed event rules, please refer to the event page.

II. NEW STORY

Spiral of Chronos

Duration: 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) - 2024/1/18, 01:59 (UTC)
Requirement: Commandant Lv.≥40
  • Following the incidents of Copperfield Aquarium, the Heteromer Shard has been retrieved by Babylonia and studied by Lee, who intends to decipher the information inside the Heteromer Shard in an attempt to reveal the truth of Punishing. While Lee gradually discovers the approach to understanding the Punishing Language under the implications of the Heteromer Shard, a mysterious tower—later known as Hetero Tower—is formed on the surface. The high concentration of Punishing Virus radiates and soon starts to corrupt humanity's Mind Beacon, including the people on the Babylonia.
  • Faced with the unprecedented crisis, Lee has no choice but to activate Hyperreal—the only available specialized frame capable of complete immunity against Punishing Virus. Inside the tower where all causality intertwines through time and space, would Lee be able to traverse through countless failures and immense pain, and finally seize the very chance to change the destiny of all humans?

III. NEW EVENT

1. Hyperspace Collapse

Duration: 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) - 2023/12/30, 06:59 (UTC)
Requirement: Commandant Lv.≥40
  • Hyperspace Collapse is the new Boss challenge mode featured with the latest Boss Primal Projection. The game mode has five stages of progressive difficulties. As the difficulty increases, the Boss will become more powerful and gain access to extra skills.
  • Complete event missions to obtain various rewards including Event Construct R&D Tickets, Trade Vouchers, basic training and enhancing materials, as well as a limited collectible [Primal Projection's Data Sample].

2. Endless Summer Blue

Duration: 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) - 2024/1/3, 07:59 (UTC)
  • Endless Summer Blue is the Bonus Story game mode revealing the story behind the SFX coating Dance of Ripplets for Lucia: Plume. The event will reveal why Dance of Ripplets was created, and give you a showcase of the coating's in-game performance.
  • Finish the coating trial stage to obtain Black Cards and other rewards.

3. However Improbable

Duration: 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) - 2024/1/10, 07:59 (UTC)
Requirement: Clear Normal Story 2-4
  • However Improbable is the new trial stage of Lee: Hyperreal to help familiarize yourself with the new character. Learn the basic maneuvers and mechanics of Hyperreal in the tutorial stage [Time-Reversing Echoes], and fight through the challenge stage [The Last Chime] to deepen your mastery of his skills. Clearing challenge stage will also reward you with basic training and enhancing materials, Trade Vouchers, as well as the limited collectible [Locator Mark-II].

4. Simulacrum Submersion

Duration: 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) - 2024/1/13, 06:59 (UTC)
Requirement: Commandant Lv.≥52
  • Simulacrum Submersion is an action-looter mode featuring hundreds of add-ons to bring you a refreshing battle experience and countless possible synergies among characters. The mode is divided into 6 levels, each includes multiple combat zones that will be unlocked over time and along with the status of the prerequisite levels. Finishing each battle would grant add-ons, which can greatly boost characters' combat capabilities.
  • Clear the combat zones and complete event missions to obtain event tokens [Simulacrum Spiral], and exchange them for rewards including Event Construct R&D Tickets, Targeted Weapon R&D Tickets, CUB R&D Tickets, Trade Vouchers, basic training and enhancing materials in event shop [Recycling Arrangement].

5. Candlelit Manifold

Duration: 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) - 2024/1/17, 06:59 (UTC)
Requirement: Commandant Lv.≥40
  • Candlelit Manifold has 5 sessions, each session has a different opening time and comes with 2 stages that drop event tokens [Time-Frozen Hourglass] and Memories. You may clear the stages repeatedly to obtain stage EXP that can upgrade the Authority Level (Authority Level: grants stats bonuses that only apply to Candlelit Manifold stages).

6. Event Shop - Spiraling Time

Duration: 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) – 2024/1/18, 01:59 (UTC)
  • Use the event token [Time-Frozen Hourglass] to redeem rewards at Spiraling Time.
  • New 6★ Memory set: Turing.
  • Limited items: Precision Toolkit (Lee's favorite gift).
  • Other materials include partial 6★ Memory sets, basic training and enhancing materials, CUB training materials, and 6★ Memory Shards.

7. Arcade Anima

Duration: 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) - Permanent
Requirement: Commandant Lv.≥40
  • Arcade Anima is a new permanent mode designed to bring untold stories of various characters and provide special challenges to you. Each featured character's Arcade Anima consists of two parts. In [Fragmented Memories], you may learn the personal struggles and sublimation of each character. While in [Heart-Lock Trial], you need to challenge through multiple harsh stages with the help of special bonuses brought by completing the contract goals of "Origins Contract".
  • Finish the story experience of [Fragmented Memories] to obtain special collectibles. Complete 3-star stage goals in the [Heart-Lock Trial] as many as possible to obtain Event Construct R&D Tickets, Trade Vouchers, as well as Construct-related special rewards including portraits, display poses, and stamps.
  • The first batch of featured characters includes Alpha and Watanabe. Stories open on 2023/12/12 (after maintenance) and 2023/12/26 07:00 respectively.

8. Magic Square Trial

Duration: 2023/12/19, 07:00 - 2024/1/6, 06:59 (UTC)
Requirement: Commandant Lv.≥52
  • Magic Square Trial is the optimized 2.0 version of the previous multi-player game mode [Magic Square Funfair]. This time around, you need to team up with two fellow commandants and focus on cooperation to defeat an enemy boss.
  • Each commandant will be deployed as a chibi character with three different types of bombs. Each type of bomb features a different color and explosion pattern. A game session consists of several rounds, your mission in each round is to avoid taking damage from the boss and use your bombs to damage the boss until it is defeated, all the while refraining from hurting your teammates with the bomb. Damaging enemy with bombs of a same color grants extra scores, while damaging or getting damaged by a teammate will result in a loss of score. Therefore, cooperation is essential in this mode.
  • Finish event tasks to obtain various rewards including Event Construct R&D Tickets, Trade Vouchers, basic training and enhancing materials, CUB training materials, and a collectible [Team of Pixel Dream].

9. Spectroscopic Binary Star

Duration: 2023/12/26, 07:00 - 2024/1/13, 06:59 (UTC)
Requirement: Commandant Lv.≥52
  • Spectroscopic Binary Star allows you to deploy 2 characters to battle simultaneously. You can switch between them anytime in the fight. Use the Reinforcement Skills to trigger Matrix and order the other character to attack enemies.
  • The event consists of 3 chapters. The first 2 chapters are of normal difficulty, clear them to earn most of the rewards. The 3rd chapter, however, offers a tougher challenge.
  • Clear the stages to finish event missions and earn abundant rewards including Event Construct R&D Tickets, Trade Vouchers, 6★ Memory Shards, Hypertune Crystals, basic training and enhancing materials, and a limited chat stamp [What? Where? How?].

10. Cat Grab

Duration: 2024/1/2, 07:00 - 2024/1/17, 06:59 (UTC)
Requirement: Commandant Lv.≥40
  • Hop into the spaceship and start hunting for space resources! In this classic Gold Miner mini-game, you need to grab various items floating in the space to earn points. Reach the target points to unlock the next stage.
  • You may purchase upgrades and consumables in the event shop to modify your spaceship. Wisely combine modifications with your miners featuring unique traits to facilitate your cat-grabbing experience.
  • Finish event missions to obtain various rewards including Event Construct R&D Tickets, Trade Vouchers, basic training and enhancing materials, CUB training materials, and a limited collectible [Meowy Saver].

IV. UPDATE

1. New Features & System Optimizations

1. Added [Collection] feature in the Mail system. You may view all Activation Date and festival mails received in the Collection section.
2. Optimized CUB skill level-up experience. You may now press and hold the "Level Up" button to quickly level up skills.
3. Added new event rewards to [Cursed Waves] game mode. The level upper limit of the reward milestone [Curse Queller's Path] has been raised to 80.
4. Added new Elusive Echo [Aliasing Resonance] to [Cursed Waves] game mode.
5. Increased Lee: Hyperreal's spawn rate in the Recruit nodes of [Cursed Waves] game mode. The increase lasts until the end of the Spiral of Chronos version.
6. Added a purchase limit to Constructs' Inver-Shards in [Shard Shop]. You can purchase up to 350 Inver-Shards of each Construct.
7. Optimized textual descriptions of partial Memories including Einsteina, Guinevere, Samantha, Ike, and Gloria. The change involves textual elements only, no skill effect has been altered.

2. Character & CUB Optimization

1. Added new display poses for Watanabe: Astral.
2. Added Recommended Equipment section to Bianca: Stigmata and Bambinata: Vitrum's [Details] of [Members] page.
3. Optimized the audio performance of SFX coating Dreamcatcher's Basic Attack, signal orbs, Signature Move, and hit-taking.
4. Optimized the audio performance of SFX coating Wavebender's Core Passive and Signature Move.
5. Optimized partial textual descriptions of Chrome: Glory's Core Passive skill. The change involves textual elements only, no skill effect has been altered.
6. Optimized the textual description of the weapon Type-4O Lance - Mod's skill in the [Recommended Equipment] page. The change involves textual elements only, no skill effect has been altered.
7. Fixed the issue where the duration of buffs provided by CUBs is not affected by the Time Lag Calculation effect.

3. Boss Optimization

1. Added boss Moon Eater, Shark-speare [Dark] to Group α, and boss Hamlet to Group γ of [Phantom Pain Cage] game mode. Moved boss Musashi IX, Gabriel, and Unknown Construct α to the Outlier section.
2. Optimized Parry experience and hit-taking visual effect against boss Madorea.
3. Fixed the issue where the boss Madorea may attack characters performing QTE skills under certain circumstances.
4. Fixed the issue where you can not regain control over characters after they are controlled by the boss Madorea under certain circumstances.

4. United Command Bureau Optimization

1. Added facility [Fortune Machine] to the new Command Bureau lobby. You may check on your daily "Luck" by interacting with the machine.
2. Added a feature to change the scene of the new Command Bureau lobby. Only the Commander-in-Chief has the authority to use this feature.
3. Optimized the interface and UX experience of the old Command Bureau lobby page.
4. Added an option to change the Command Bureau's portrait. The portrait collection features various faction logos.
5. Added a sorting feature to the member list of Command Bureau.
6. Added currency [Cooperation Merit] as a reward of Weekly Contribution and Simulated Siege. The change takes effect on 2023/12/18, 07:00 (UTC).
7. Added [Music Box CD] and [Bureau Hall] to [Bureau Shop]. Commander-in-Chief may consume Cooperation Merit to purchase Bureau scenes and music in the shop.
8. Added mission [Command Bureau: Fortune Machine] to [Daily] - [Missions].
PGR Team
December 10, 2023
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